> This is not how politics work in the rest of the world. Actually, it is. It's just in places that you probably don't want to live in: > Donald Trump’s Repub

> This is not how politics work in the rest of the world. Actually, it is. It's just in places that you probably don't want to live in: > Donald Trump’s Republican party has become more illiberal and retreated from upholding democratic norms in recent years, a study has found, with its rhetoric shifting closer that of authoritarian parties ruling in Turkey, Hungary, Poland and India. > The research by Sweden-based V-Dem Institute highlights what it calls a “global trend” where “the median governing party in democracies has become more illiberal in recent decades”. * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/gop-trump-republican-democrats-authoritarian-hungary-austria-india-poland-turkey-b1343847.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio... * PDF: https://www.v-dem.net/media/filer_public/b6/55/b6553f85-5c5d-45ec-be63-a48a2abe3f62/briefing_paper_9.pdf https://www.v-dem.net/media/filer_public/b6/55/b6553f85-5c5d... By 2014 it was the GOP that had become more-right and the median with the Democrats hadn't change much from preceding decades: * https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/yes-polarization-is-asymmetric-and-conservatives-are-worse/373044/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/yes-pol... However since then it appears that Democrats have become more-left.